Hi Bob (and everyone else),
Thanks for your response. I see now that my original post wasn't completely clear. When I say "it won't boot", I mean "I can't even get to the boot loader", so /var/log/messages won't have anything useful for us. I''ve mucked around extensively with both the motherboard and SCSI card BIOS settings, and nothing I do seems to get this machine to wake up on the first SCSI drive.
I can, however, boot into "linux rescue" -- even though this requires booting from the same SCSI controller. I wasn't able to create a boot floppy -- Fedora's install said my kernel image would be too big.
Motherboard is a SuperMicro P6DBE (440BX Chipset). SCSI controller is an Adaptec "Array1000" (model number AAA-133U2).
Thanks in advance,
A-----
At 03:44 AM 12/7/2003, you wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:46:57 -0500, Allan Metts <ametts2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have system with nothing but SCSI drives in it. Fedora installation went smooth as silk, but the system won't boot after install. I'm telling my machine's BIOS to boot from SCSI, and the BIOS is enabled on the Adaptec SCSI controller. I was able to boot from a SCSI CDROM to do the install.
I checked /etc/grub.conf by booting from the Fedora CD in rescue mode. It looked okay to me -- the boot partition is on /dev/sda.
We need more info - What type motherboard (440GX ?), SCSI controller (Adaptec/built-in ?). Where does it fail on boot? What does /var/log/messages say about errors? - I presume you tried to boot again with the boot CD using "linux rescue". Did you try the boot floppy you created when you installed?
